Word: sabonjian
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...today." - Negro mobs, continuing sporadic rioting started two weeks ago after the arrest of a Negro youth, threw fire bombs from buildings in Waukegan, Ill., a blue-collar community near Chicago, setting cars ablaze and burning seven people, two of them critically. After police quelled the riots, Mayor Robert Sabonjian, who has steadfastly rebuffed overtures to improve race relations, moved to cut off relief and unemployment benefits to the rioters, ordered the city housing authority to evict some of those arrested. The city also set bond so high that few could be released from jail. Sabonjian called the rioters "animals...
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